Standup – 4/1/2009 April Fool's Day

Interesting Things

Amazon, in a push to make “cloud computing” a tangible concept, deployed blimps as part of its new FACE service which supports 65K+ EC2 instances, with 40% of their power being generated from solar cells on the blimp surface. San Francisco pivots seemed to like the idea that a data center could be earthquake proof given a recent shakedown in the south bay.